Fudzilla has uncovered a new roadmap which shows Intel's plans beyond Broadwell in the notebook market space.

Despite being 14nm and the fact that Broadwell-U which is under the bonnet of most of the notebooks only just started shipping, Intel is planning another big announcement before the end of the year.

It is back to the tick-tock strategy, with Skylake as the tock. It is the new architecture based on the 14nm manufacturing process. Haswell and Broadwell are tick which means that they are the die shrink. Skylake is the new architecture based on 14nm manufacturing process and of course Intel introduces all kinds of optimisations to the core.

The company is commited to bring the Skylake in 2016 but we now have a more precise time-frame . Intel plans to launch a few Skylake-U 15W TDP Core i7 and Core i5 with more to come in Q1 2016. Most of Skylake-U 28W processors will arrive in Q1 2016.

Intel plans to refresh the Core M line of processors with four new Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) with Y-Processor like grade Skylake. The 14nm Skylake processor processor should have some significant power optimisations enabling significantly longer battery life and enabling the wireless charging possible.

Intel promises that the Skylake mobile platform can help you get rid of the charging cables as it includes wireless charging, at least for some units. .

Skylake-H will bring the four core SKU on the market starting with Q4 2015 and continuing with more units in Q1 2016 and onwards. This was the plan all along and we have reported back in the summer of 2014 that Skylake is scheduled for the later part of 2015.

It is unclear when the Cannonlake 10nm successor comes to market. We can expect it at the earliest at later part of 2016 but Intel didn’t share many information about this chip.

For those who came in late, Intel has a Tick - Tock strategy happening for the last few years, although lately there has been more tocking than ticking.

We have been stuck with Haswell for desktop computers for the whole 2013 and 2014 but this year Intel plans to launch a new architecture for desktop codenamed Skylake (Tick). Haswell 22nm was Tock, a new architecture manufactured on 22nm.It was followed late 2014 with Broadwell, a 14nm version of improved Haswell core (Tock). Broadwell (tick) will get succedded by Skylake, (Tock), a new architecture on 14nm.

Haswell Core i7 4770 emerged on June 1st 2013 and it was replaced a year later with Core i7 4790K again a Haswell refresh core. Now in June 2015 we expect a Skylake 14nm desktop parts, a year later than planned.

Skylake is bringing a few new things to the performance market. The new socket doesn’t surprise anyone and it is called LGA 1151, has just one pin more than Haswell.

The chipset is codenamed Sunrise Point and should work for the Skylake generation of processors and the 2016 Cannonlake Tick, It has 20 x PCIe 3.0, DMI 3.0 (4x PCIe 3.0) connection between CPU and the chipset. The number of SATA 6 G-bit ports remained six but the number of native USB 3.0 ports grew to 10, from 6 in Z97 Haswell chipset. Skylake supports both DDR3 and DDR4 memory and there will probably be boards for both memory interfaces.

Z97 boards had a single M.2 / SATA express port for the new format SSDs and the new Z170 will come with three of them. You will be able to plug up to three M.2 / SATA express drives in the motherboard. We are not sure that you need that many, but we would be happy with two.

Kingston's Predator M.2 drives are expected to launch in this month, February with the help of Marvell’s X4-lane PCIe SSD Controller 88SS9293 it can hit speeds over 1500MB/s read and around 1000MB/s write. We saw them in action at CES 2015 and we expect many similar drives from the competition to boost already faster SSD 6 G-bit SATA connected drives.

Intel has changed its strategy when it comes to talking about its next generation technology. Back at IDF 2012, the company mentioned Haswell second generation 22nm CPUs and even explained some of its core technology, although it didn’t actually show any demos.

People got excited about Core i5 and Core i7 next generation Haswell parts that can ship with 10W TDP, but Intel hasn’t actually shown anything. When we asked a few people inside the company, they said that Intel isn't planning on revealing too much, as they want to surprise the competition a bit more than they used to.

It’s quite clear that Haswell has every chance to beat AMD’s including 2013 Vishera successors. Intel obviously wants to see the market's reaction to many ARM competitors, since some of them run Windows 8 RT just fine.

Intel wants to keep things secret until the time is right and the fact that Haswell is expected in the later part of Q2 2013, almost nine months from now, doesn’t help. A few years back, the IDF would have taken place in September and Intel would roll out its new architecture in the first part of Q4, a month or two after the introduction, which made sense. The fact that it has slipped its original tick tock for more than half year suggests that Intel wants to keep quiet about many Haswell details, as it still has nine months to sell Ivy Bridge Core I 3000 series.